---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to the award of burial expenses by the office of victims services"
description: "Relates to the award of burial expenses by the office of victim services; permits emergency awards for burial expenses in cases of undue hardship."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "S 7992"
citation: "New York S 7992 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["GALLIVAN"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-03-16"
last_action: "2018-12-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/50d2af70-c92f-4c3e-8ba2-9b33a723d1e1"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/S7992"
source_hash: "c439697cd781a4123f39af2480da672d794a695a63ff2a85dd9d2dfb5b8eeb75"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 7992 (2017-2018) — Relates to the award of burial expenses by the office of victims services

Relates to the award of burial expenses by the office of victim services; permits emergency awards for burial expenses in cases of undue hardship.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S7992 HTML** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S7992&term=2017&Text=Y)
2. **S7992 PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2017/S7992)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **61–0** (pass) · upper
- Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Vote — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Finance Vote — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- GALLIVAN — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-03-16** REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-09** REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-30** 1ST REPORT CAL.1375
- **2018-05-31** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2018-06-04** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2018-06-11** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2018-06-11** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2018-06-11** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-18** SUBSTITUTED FOR A11016
- **2018-06-18** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.236
- **2018-06-18** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2018-06-18** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2018-12-18** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2018-12-28** SIGNED CHAP.494 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/50d2af70-c92f-4c3e-8ba2-9b33a723d1e1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).